Hans let out a low and heavy breath, letting his body catch up to his racing mind.
The fight ahead was not going to be easy, but just by seeing the looks on his allies faces, the way they were battling, and the wound their body's refused to acknowledge...
Which Chase's arrival... The odds were not zero.
He grit his teeth, feeling a calming wave of energy rush over his body.
'Mother Earth... Carry me through this battle...' He prayed internally, locking eyes with Gideon as one of the several mimics launched at the both of them with enough force to shatter glass.
"Shit! Look out!" Griffin yelled, dashing out of the way with Neveah, Gabriel, and now Michael somehow piled onto his shoulders.
Hans had no time to admire how much work the Bard was putting in... Because four razor sharp claws were about to rip the skin of face clean off.
Although he had lost his left gauntlet in the void and his entire ride side was completely obliterated...
He raged... His left fist clenched, striking the air in front of him with movements so fast that even Neo of House Cobra wouldn't have been able to dodge such a strike.
The air in front of him trembled- quickly turning into a vacuum, shooting back the mimic and shredding apart its skin before it could ever reach him.
He looked at Gideon, who drew his sword and nodded as the crimson troll took another step, shaking the entire battlefield.
'He's under her control...' Hans thought, mentally noting that the beast could be outsmarted in its current state.
Luke quickly noted this as well, throwing his scarlet chain with tremendous force, watching from a short distance as it wrapped around the troll's legs like a lasso, causing it to fall forward.
"No!" Gemini yelled, lifting the head of his warhammer high in the air, and bringing it down with a tremendous force of his own.
The entire floor cracked and quaked as the beast's head fell straight into the ground.
Gemini used the force of his attack, launching himself straight into the air, and Hans and Luke quickly understood why.
The ground began to break apart, revealing a terrible abyss below.
Hans tried to grab one of the ledges, but it had been too late.
His body had began to descend as the entire floor of the lowest level of Olympia shattered apart.
...
Gideon's mind scrambled, trying to recall any of the spells that he had learned over the years.
He had nowhere near enough energy to use gravity manipulation in a place like this.
He shut his eyes... Knowing full well what the sight of the void could do to a person his body seemed to fall forever.
The troll roared, and a terrible shockwave of energy crashed into Gideon's chest, as he felt the wind pull him further into the distance.
...
Luke grit his teeth, summoning the chain back into his hands.
Leo was nearby, falling further and further into the void, but with a quick glance up-Luke had a terrible yet genius idea. A last ditch effort to somehow save the lives of him and his students.
He swung his chain upward, forcing all of his Axis energy into the motion.
Then he used his Primis... Forcing the chain to split into several different limbs that shot out in several different directions.
Leo gasped from nearby as one of the chains wrapped around his waist, squeezing several of the open wounds on his body.
"Sorry!" Luke yelled, focusing his next chain on Hans who appeared to have a plan of his own...
He was targeting the falling Troll...
His fist crashed into the descending crimson chest of the beast, causing a shockwave to ensue below it, the force of his attack strong enough to shake the air within the void.
So, Luke did the most reasonable thing he could...
He forced the chain to wrap around Hans's leg...
Lifting him up with split perception as his other chain shot towards Gideon who was probably fifty meters away from the three of them...
Meanwhile, Hans was being swung upwards... Then he was throwing back down, the chain not daring to unravel around his leg.
Hans prepared his already broken fist, reeling back as he descended with growing velocity.
BOOM!
Hans's fist crashed into the now blocking arms of the Troll with wide incoherent eyes, the power of the attack twice as strong as the last.
At the same time, Gideon was ensnared in the chains, and being suspended in the air just barely by a struggling Luke.
Then the ledge that Luke's main branch of chains was clinging too began to crack, until...
Crack...
Crack...
Crack!
The floor broke apart even further above them...
Out of the corner of Luke's eye, he seen an upside down kingdom so unbelievable that he thought it was hallucinations caused by Energetic Overload... Until...
"I got you!"
Gemini grabbed the chain with the tips of his fingers, his body hanging above the void as his right pulled himself to the closest ledge available.
"Thatta boy!" Luke yelled in strain as he forced his chain to shoot Hans back down at the troll, hoping that this last attack could send the troll so far into the void that he would no longer be a variable in this fight.
...
Hans was in pain.
Horrendous pain.
Terrible pain.
His left hand was shriveled and limp, his fingers bending unnaturally and the armor on his arms cracked and dismantled up to his shoulders.
Yet, he prepared his right...
A roar escaping his throat as his gauntlet crashed into the troll's face, a shockwave three times as strong as the last- crashed straight into the Troll's skull.
His arm shot back, recoiling in terrible pain as the bronze gauntlet shattered in an instant.
Just as the chain was about to pull him back...
Horror filled Hans as the Troll's crimson lips curled into a hideous grin...
It clutched the panda's leg, wrapping its giant fist around his entire calf, but it was too late.
Luke had already launched all of them upward and straight towards the room full of green fog...
Bringing the crimson Troll with them...